Oh dear, it’s the nasty party all over again.
That seemed to be the general reaction to the Home Secretary Theresa May’s speech to the Tory party faithful in Manchester.
Her comments about immigration were described as marking a “new low in the politics of migration” by the Guardian, and by others as “tawdry”, “contemptible” and as “fanning the flames of prejudice”, and even the Institute of Directors chimed in calling her words “irresponsible”. And then there’s the Telegraph’s own sneering metro-liberal, James Kirkup.